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Modals to express ability: CAN, COULD, BE ABLE TO
Adjective + TO-infinitive
Modals to express obligation: MUST, HAVE (GOT) TO
The infinitive of purpose
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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The difference between countable and uncountable nouns
The present and past participles used as adjectives
Satchel Paige
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?
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Second conditional
The modal WOULD to express unreal situations
Seneca
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Present simple for general truths
The definite article with adjectives
The difference between countable and uncountable nouns
Sophocles
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Adjective + TO-infinitive
Present simple for general truths
Spanish proverb
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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Future simple for predictions
WHATEVER, WHOEVER, WHICHEVER, WHEREVER, WHENEVER
Swedish proverb
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
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Defining relative clause
Present simple for general truths
Pronouns used in defining relative clauses
Verb + TO-infinitive
Tehyi Hsieh
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
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Defining relative clause
Future simple for predictions
Modals to express ability: CAN, COULD, BE ABLE TO
Pronouns used in defining relative clauses
Thomas Edison
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Modals to express willingness / unwillingness: WILL, WOULD
Present perfect for past events
The perfect aspect
Thomas Watson, Sr.
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.
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Modals to express obligation: MUST, HAVE (GOT) TO
Nouns with countable and uncountable meanings
The infinitive of purpose
Vince Lombardi
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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Second conditional
The modal WOULD to express unreal situations
Vita Sackville-West
Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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DO, DOES, DID + bare infinitive
The auxiliaries DO and DOES for emphasis
Voltaire
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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Modals to express obligation: MUST, HAVE (GOT) TO
Present simple for general truths
The difference between countable and uncountable nouns
TO-infinitive or gerund: FORGET, REMEMBER, REGRET, GO ON, STOP, TRY
Washington Irving
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
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Present simple for general truths
The indefinite article with a member of a class
The present and past participles used as adjectives
William Barret
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.
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Cleft sentences
Defining relative clause
Present simple for general truths
Pronouns used in defining relative clauses
Pseudo-cleft sentences
The definite article with adjectives
WHAT (the thing(s) that/which)
William Carlos Williams
In summer, the song sings itself.
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Present simple for general truths
The zero article with names of days, months, seasons, holidays and parts of the day
William Frederick Book
A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
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Modals to express obligation: MUST, HAVE (GOT) TO
The indefinite article with a member of a class
William Safire
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
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Modals to express ability: CAN, COULD, BE ABLE TO
ONLY AFTER, ONLY IF, ONLY IN THIS WAY etc., NOT UNTIL
Winston Churchill
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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Other expressions followed by the gerund
Present simple for present habits and states
The indefinite article to describe and classify something
Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Determiners with countable and uncountable nouns (SOME, ANY, NO, MANY, MUCH, FEW, LITTLE etc.)
Present simple for general truths
The indefinite article with a member of a class
Yogi Berra
If you don't know where you're going, you might never get there.
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Modals to express possibility: MAY, MIGHT, CAN, COULD
State verbs and action verbs
Zero conditional
Zen saying
When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.
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Future time clauses
Zen saying
Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
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Determiners with countable and uncountable nouns (SOME, ANY, NO, MANY, MUCH, FEW, LITTLE etc.)
The difference between countable and uncountable nouns
The gerund as a subject complement
List of exercises
Exercises: past time
Exercises: present time
Exercises: future time
Exercises: modals
Exercises: conditionals and unreal tenses
Exercises: indirect speech
Exercises: passive voice and causative structures
Exercises: non-finite verb forms
Exercises: relative clauses
Exercises: inversion
Exercises: articles and nouns
Glossary
A | B | C | D | E | F | H | I | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y
A
action
A general term to express that somebody or something is doing something.
adjective
A part of speech that modifies, qualifies or restricts a noun or a pronoun. (
It's a
nice
house. The apples are
ripe
. He's very
talented
.
)
adverb
A part of speech that modifies a verb, adjective, adverb or conjunction. (
I could
hardly